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how big is the fallout of this story going to get? >> well, i mean it's reached a level to everyone in the uk has found astonishing. a story for a long time has been bubbling under and has been the preserve of a group of people who are interested in the media. now it's coming of something that's of obsessive interest in the country that are normal people, have not done something wrong, widows of people who have been killed fighting for the country in a war, absolutely astonishing. >> maybe a dumb yes question, why were they hacking these voice mails, using these for scoops in the paper? was that the intent? >> right, right, exactly. what's astonishing is shows they were doing it on fishing expeditions, not when they had a big story they wanted to confirm. whenever they had somebody's phone number, they'd go through their voicemails to see if they could find. they were looking at the voice mails years after the death of the soldiers basically hoping to get good, private information that would give them the jump on their rivals in the m
how big is the fallout of this story going to get? >> well, i mean it's reached a level to everyone in the uk has found astonishing. a story for a long time has been bubbling under and has been the preserve of a group of people who are interested in the media. now it's coming of something that's of obsessive interest in the country that are normal people, have not done something wrong, widows of people who have been killed fighting for the country in a war, absolutely astonishing....
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that has been a big enabler of the unimaginable fiscal catastrophe. here's what i don't understand, i said it was irresponsible to speculate. when michele bachmann said the president can prioritize, i don't know. i've been tempted where he would say, that's a good idea. here's things at the bottom of my priorities, medicaid in the state of texas, that comes last. you defense contractors, later, later. i'll be getting to you as soon as i can. what would lyndon johnson do in a situation like this? not this. >> that's true. it is time to play hardball. i think democrats and progressives were heartened, i think, by the president's press conference last wednesday when he essentially drew a line in the sand. it's unclear whether he moved that line or kind of kept it where it was today, but, you know, we'll see. what's the ending here. >> here's the end game. this is why from the beginning i've been shocked. the end game is sachs owns a lot of treasuries. people think it's the chinese, no, you have treasuries in your 401(k) and are we really going to -- is w
that has been a big enabler of the unimaginable fiscal catastrophe. here's what i don't understand, i said it was irresponsible to speculate. when michele bachmann said the president can prioritize, i don't know. i've been tempted where he would say, that's a good idea. here's things at the bottom of my priorities, medicaid in the state of texas, that comes last. you defense contractors, later, later. i'll be getting to you as soon as i can. what would lyndon johnson do in a situation like...
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three, which is big for the base, big for people on fixed incomes, and it would not increase revenue. and it would cut what you're talking about, the possibility of job creation, because we're taking too much out of the economy. how could this be viewed as a win for the president? >> well, i don't think it would be a win. it's a win only relative to what the republicans are proposing. but if you save social security and medicare and medicaid, that's great. but if you take $2.7 trillion out of the economy, and if you do it soon, unfortunately, then you're going to have a tremendous problem. if you don't raise taxes on the rich, where are those cuts going too to come from? they're going to come from education, from infrastructure, from basic r&d. from all the things that you need to grow the economy and create jobs. >> and of course, if we go back to the old tax rates, before the bush tax cuts, we would be looking at $4 trillion into the treasury over the next decade, is that correct? >> of course we would. look, i was very proud, i was a member of the clinton administration. we ended
three, which is big for the base, big for people on fixed incomes, and it would not increase revenue. and it would cut what you're talking about, the possibility of job creation, because we're taking too much out of the economy. how could this be viewed as a win for the president? >> well, i don't think it would be a win. it's a win only relative to what the republicans are proposing. but if you save social security and medicare and medicaid, that's great. but if you take $2.7 trillion...
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. >> failing on the big things is something they choose to do. >> we emplore the other side to get serious. >> when is the house going to stop the charade? >> the gang of six is still trying to lead. >> it's a far cry from the paul ryan budget. >> we thought this was the gang of six, dead and buried. >> now the gang of six is a gang of seven. >> two parts, there's always a second act. >> gotten rave reviews from a lot of folks. frlgs colleagues really liked it. >> when does somebody have to say uncle? >> murdoch is also not taking the blame. >> insisting that he is not to blame. >> london calling. >> tried to pass the buck today. >> just doesn't really stack up. >> the 80-year-old also appeared confused. >> he said yes, i'm in charge of this company. >> somebody jumped over to, i believe, get to rupert murdoch. >> somebody with a pie, wendi murdoch leaped past her husband. >> she's feisty, i've met her. >> if i remember correctly, that looks like a spike. >> you can always say with glitter. >> as the deadline for raising the debt ceiling grows closer by the day, house republicans chose to
. >> failing on the big things is something they choose to do. >> we emplore the other side to get serious. >> when is the house going to stop the charade? >> the gang of six is still trying to lead. >> it's a far cry from the paul ryan budget. >> we thought this was the gang of six, dead and buried. >> now the gang of six is a gang of seven. >> two parts, there's always a second act. >> gotten rave reviews from a lot of folks. frlgs...
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. >> failing on the big things is something they choose to do. >> we implore them. murdoch is also note blame. >> insisting that he is not to blame. >> london calling. >> tried to pass the buck. >> he doesn't stack up. >> the 80-year-old appeared confused. >> here said yes, i'm in charge. >> someone tried to get i believe to rupert murdoch. >> a man with a shaving cream pie leaps past her husband and attempted to smash rupert murdoch in the face. >> that are looks like a spice. >> can you say it was glitter. >> as the deadline for raising the debt ceiling grows closer, house republicans chose to spend this day in debate and on a floor vote on a bill that the president has promised to veto if it somehow miraculously passed the senate, which it won't. republicans are not calling it the cut cap and balance bill because it drastically cuts spending and caps future spending and would guarantee future balanced guj et through a balanced amendment to the constitution. that would require a $2/3 majority. it was a debate over a bill that would never become law. you couldn't t
. >> failing on the big things is something they choose to do. >> we implore them. murdoch is also note blame. >> insisting that he is not to blame. >> london calling. >> tried to pass the buck. >> he doesn't stack up. >> the 80-year-old appeared confused. >> here said yes, i'm in charge. >> someone tried to get i believe to rupert murdoch. >> a man with a shaving cream pie leaps past her husband and attempted to smash rupert murdoch...
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there is a big difference between 15% and 0%. this study can be found right now on house speaker john boehner's website. speaker.gov. there are reports now seeping out of the ultrasecret bipartisan deficit reduction negotiations led by invite president joe biden that the ratio that was on the table when the republicans walked out was 83% spending cuts, 17% revenue increases. so when the talks got within a couple of percentage points of the ratio that republicans recently considered acceptable, why did the republicans walk out? senator chuck schumer knows why. >> let's not forget senator mcconnell made it clear last october that his number one priority above everything else is to defeat president obama. and now it's becoming clear that insisting on a slash and burn approach may be part of this plan. it has a double benefit for republicans. it's ideologically tidy and undermines economic recovery, which they think only helps them in 2012. >> the current position on tax revenues including the refusal to close tax loopholes is too ex
there is a big difference between 15% and 0%. this study can be found right now on house speaker john boehner's website. speaker.gov. there are reports now seeping out of the ultrasecret bipartisan deficit reduction negotiations led by invite president joe biden that the ratio that was on the table when the republicans walked out was 83% spending cuts, 17% revenue increases. so when the talks got within a couple of percentage points of the ratio that republicans recently considered acceptable,...
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. >> and big money, big problems? >> gop fund-raisers staying on the sidelines. >> for mitt romney it's 70% maxed out contributions. >> is newt aware he's running for president? >> the arrests continue as the british police close in on rupert murdoch's media empire scandal. >> every day we're seeing more inconceivable things happen. >> abandon ship. in the last 24 hours there have been two high level resignations. zo london's top cop. >> rebekah brooks was released on jail. >> rupert murdoch is supposed to face the scandal head on tomorrow. >> all eyes are trained on parliament tomorrow. >> they're cutting short a trip today to south africa. >> when is he going to do the decent thing and resign? >> congress now has 15 days to pass a bill to raise the debt ceiling before the united states government goes into a catastrophic default on august 2nd. today harry reid announced the senate will meet every day until the debt ceiling is raised. yesterday david rogers of politico discovered and reported that house speaker john
. >> and big money, big problems? >> gop fund-raisers staying on the sidelines. >> for mitt romney it's 70% maxed out contributions. >> is newt aware he's running for president? >> the arrests continue as the british police close in on rupert murdoch's media empire scandal. >> every day we're seeing more inconceivable things happen. >> abandon ship. in the last 24 hours there have been two high level resignations. zo london's top cop. >> rebekah...
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while giving huge tax breaks to big oil and the wealthy. we can't rebuild america if they tear down the middle class. priorities usa action is responsible for the content of this advertising. can become romantic just like that. a spark might come from -- a touch, a glance -- it can come along anywhere, anytime. and when it does, men with erectile dysfunction can be more confident in their ability to be ready with cialis for daily use. cialis for daily use is a clinically proven low-dose tablet...
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push for the big cuts republicans say they want. if they turn their back on those big cuts, the president is in the strongest position to say they are not living up to their principles. >> and there is no chance of them accepting any kind of big deal at all because the president is insisting that there be tax revenue increases in there. so the president knows that he is pushing something that they absolutely cannot agree to. so at this point, what the president does seem to be doing is what you just said, is making his position appear to be the one who wants to do the big move on deficit reduction, and forcing these republicans to back away from big deficit reduction, thereby, he hopes, neutralizing deficit reduction as an issue against him in the presidential campaign. >> well, look, he's talked about deficit reduction all the way through. but remember, it's not just his position here. it's 2/3 of the american public. we have a slew of polls here saying that 2/3 of the american people want to see some combination of taxes and spend
push for the big cuts republicans say they want. if they turn their back on those big cuts, the president is in the strongest position to say they are not living up to their principles. >> and there is no chance of them accepting any kind of big deal at all because the president is insisting that there be tax revenue increases in there. so the president knows that he is pushing something that they absolutely cannot agree to. so at this point, what the president does seem to be doing is...
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and rupert murdoch brings in the big guns. he hires the lawyer who represented oliver north in the iran scandal as the justice department begins looking into news corp.'s activities. while energy developement comes with some risk, north america's natural gas producers are committed to safely and responsibly providing decades of cleaner burning energy for our country, drilling thousands of feet below fresh water sources within self contained well systems and using state of the art monitoring technologies, rigorous practices help ensure our operations are safe and clean for our communities and the environment we are america's natural gas. helps defends against occasional constipation, diarrhea, gas and bloating. with three strains of good bacteria to help balance your colon. you had me at "probiotic." [ female announcer ] phillips' colon health. >>> time for tonight's we write. andrew breitbart's favorite performance artist, james o'keefe is at it again. setting up one of his childish attempts to show you how stupid the governme
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and rupert murdoch brings in the big guns. he hires the lawyer who represented oliver north in the iran scandal as the justice department begins looking into news corp.'s activities. >>> time for tonight's we write. andrew breitbart's favorite performance artist, james o'keefe is at it again. setting up one of his childish attempts to show you how stupid the government is, o'keefe's biggest star turn was his now completely discredited framing of acorn with one of his edited videos. this time, o'keefe went after a favorite right wing target, medicaid, the federal government, health care assistance program for the poor. one of his "undercover reporters" when into a public assistance office in charleston, south carolina, one of three such visits in the state. the man is wearing a kilt, speaking in what he alone thinks is an irish accent and calling himself shaun murphy. you might recall from the acorn video that o'keefe flavors flamboyant costuming in his videography. he says he needs medicaid help for 25 fellow irishman in a nea
and rupert murdoch brings in the big guns. he hires the lawyer who represented oliver north in the iran scandal as the justice department begins looking into news corp.'s activities. >>> time for tonight's we write. andrew breitbart's favorite performance artist, james o'keefe is at it again. setting up one of his childish attempts to show you how stupid the government is, o'keefe's biggest star turn was his now completely discredited framing of acorn with one of his edited videos....
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he wanted a clean bill, didn't want any big grand compromise on the budget. then he decided to get involved in the game and try to work out a grand compromise, but the problem was he was dealing with a incapacitated partner in john boehner who could never, and probably can never, deliver his own caucus for a vote. >> and that vote, the boehner vote, was supposed to be tomorrow on the boehner bill. they have given up on that having that vote tomorrow because they don't have a boehner bill anymore. howard, it seems to me that, as you say, what each side is doing is trying to say, it's their fault that it came to this and they need say to their own sides -- i mean boehner needs to be able to say to the republicans and the tea party, i never gave up, i was fighting all the way to the end to get us to this. but when we get to august 1st, there is a very simple way out, it's a way that has been used more times than they can count, which is the one-page, one-sentence bill, which simply raises the debt ceiling. boehner has said, repeatedly, we must raise the debt cei
he wanted a clean bill, didn't want any big grand compromise on the budget. then he decided to get involved in the game and try to work out a grand compromise, but the problem was he was dealing with a incapacitated partner in john boehner who could never, and probably can never, deliver his own caucus for a vote. >> and that vote, the boehner vote, was supposed to be tomorrow on the boehner bill. they have given up on that having that vote tomorrow because they don't have a boehner bill...
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clean is the best way to do this, the traditional way to do this, to where we are now, which is how big a deficit reduction package should accompany it? >> well, as i think the speaker of the house is discovering tonight and is the reality that we all live with here in washington, lawrence, which is that this is a divided government. a two-party system. nobody gets entirely what he or she wants. and, yes, if we had been doing this in the normal way, as has been historically done, there would have been a clean debt ceiling vote, which traditionally has been an unpleasant vote often for members of congress, but routine and noncontroversial and certainly not tied to any kind of deficit reduction package or any other measure for that matter. what happened is that the speaker of the house made clear that -- and republicans in general that they were linking the willingness to raise the debt ceiling to significant deficit reduction. as you know, for a long time, we rejected the link. but because we believe we need to reduce our deficits and get our debt under control. we also worked concurrent
clean is the best way to do this, the traditional way to do this, to where we are now, which is how big a deficit reduction package should accompany it? >> well, as i think the speaker of the house is discovering tonight and is the reality that we all live with here in washington, lawrence, which is that this is a divided government. a two-party system. nobody gets entirely what he or she wants. and, yes, if we had been doing this in the normal way, as has been historically done, there...
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he said we need a long-term solution, he said we need a big solution, a grand solution, the president offered that, it was clear that he could have gotten that deal, in my opinion. the first time that he walked away from the deal, and i'm absolutely convinced, having talked to the president, he could have gotten a deal the second time he walked away. the problem is i think his party wants to play politics, his party irresponsibly wants to hold hostage the credit of the united states and every american's credit to politics. hopefully mr. boehnorç will return to his original concept that we ought to have a long-term, get us out of the election era, and what he's always said he wants is stability to businesses can count on our policies. well, he's suggested something absolutely the opposite of what he said is good policy. >> congressman hoyer, i appreciate your semantic correction of what i said about the democrats -- >> schumer said that. >> my point about it, though, is that -- and i think senator schumer's point can also be taken is we have a history here now, going back the last fe
he said we need a long-term solution, he said we need a big solution, a grand solution, the president offered that, it was clear that he could have gotten that deal, in my opinion. the first time that he walked away from the deal, and i'm absolutely convinced, having talked to the president, he could have gotten a deal the second time he walked away. the problem is i think his party wants to play politics, his party irresponsibly wants to hold hostage the credit of the united states and every...
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where we're going to end up, it's we're going to end up with some kind of short-term extension, no big deal, and then everybody's going to blame everybody else for the fact we didn't get anything done. you talk about the gang of six, there's a gang of 300 million out there, the american people, who are completely fed up with this. they elect representatives to take care of housekeeping chores, and this is a grand housekeeping chore, and they are failing at the process of doing it. >> howard, i'm wondering, does the same thing go for -- it is my sense it does. boehnor is actually not the most disappointed guy in the capitol, he knew he was putting together something that wasn't real and that cbo shooting it down is not some big shock to him, that he was just putting together to claim he was putting something together. >> that's true too. maybe there was a smidgen of sincerity there and knowing him and having covered him, but yeah, they both want to be able to say after we all go off the edge of a cliff that it was the other person's fault, and that's exactly the situation we're in right
where we're going to end up, it's we're going to end up with some kind of short-term extension, no big deal, and then everybody's going to blame everybody else for the fact we didn't get anything done. you talk about the gang of six, there's a gang of 300 million out there, the american people, who are completely fed up with this. they elect representatives to take care of housekeeping chores, and this is a grand housekeeping chore, and they are failing at the process of doing it. >>...
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but on any other day, this would be the big story. the former -- or sorry, director of communications to the prime minister, basically the british cj from the west wing, will be arrested. it's an unbelievable story there. and it looks as if he'll be arrested. it's possible, although it's only alleged, he could face perjury charges and could very easily do prison time over this. >> there's been some speculation i read about the motivation behind shutting down "news of the world." one of the columns i read today said they thought it was possible that this would be a way of essentially the murdoch empire destroying the evidence. that once they shut it down, they would not have to retain records of any sort. do you know if there are any police present in the building, or any legal injunctions offered to make sure that the evidence of how broadly this practice was being pursued doesn't vanish? >> well, i have actually seen the same piece you're talking about. i have also seen a bit of pessimism over whether or not that would be possible un
but on any other day, this would be the big story. the former -- or sorry, director of communications to the prime minister, basically the british cj from the west wing, will be arrested. it's an unbelievable story there. and it looks as if he'll be arrested. it's possible, although it's only alleged, he could face perjury charges and could very easily do prison time over this. >> there's been some speculation i read about the motivation behind shutting down "news of the world."...
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"joe walsh hasn't been a big time wage earner politician until recently. he's had no more problems with child support than any other average guy." sounds like walsh's lawyer is a specialist in deadbeat dads. joe walsh's lawyer, the champion of average guys and deadbeat dads everywhere, cannot explain why the supposedly financially struggling joe walsh was able to loan his 2010 congressional campaign $35,000. nor can joe walsh's deadbeat dad lawyer explain how joe walsh got his hands on $35,000 to loan his campaign $35,000, nor can joe walsh's deadbeat dad lawyer explain why joe walsh's campaign fund has paid him back at least $14,000 for the loan while joe walsh hasn't paid the several years of child support he owes the mother of his first three children. nor can joe walsh's deadbeat dad lawyer explain how the impoverished joe walsh was able to take vacations with his girlfriend in 2004 to mexico and italy while refusing to pay child support. in a court filing in december of last year, laura walsh's attorneys wrote, "the apparent availability of large sums
"joe walsh hasn't been a big time wage earner politician until recently. he's had no more problems with child support than any other average guy." sounds like walsh's lawyer is a specialist in deadbeat dads. joe walsh's lawyer, the champion of average guys and deadbeat dads everywhere, cannot explain why the supposedly financially struggling joe walsh was able to loan his 2010 congressional campaign $35,000. nor can joe walsh's deadbeat dad lawyer explain how joe walsh got his hands...